Tips for Navigating Your Way Through the Internet

Tips for Navigating Your Way Through the Internet

During a recent talk to an association gathering in Washington, I offered a "meager guide" on pro- ductively using the Internet.

Given the positive response to that informal lecture, I offer readers the following recommendations about one way of making your way safely and expeditiously through the mine fields of the Internet.

Consider the Internet just one source of information or means of communication.

Practice etiquette.

Calculate the opportunity cost in all your professional work.

Approach the Internet with the same standards you use with other sources, and heed the words of Wolfgang Pauli in reply to a colleague who asked him to review a physics paper: "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."

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